New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sean Payton is one of those NFL coaches who learns from NFL history and well, he decided to take a page out of Super Bowl Champion and former 49ers coach Bill Walsh's playbook.
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Sean Payton had taken a few pages from the playbook of the late coaching great Bill Walsh before.Fantastic, I guess the economy is tough for everybody right now and I heard those tips were actually pretty good.
Not quite like this, though.
Ever focused on the mood of his players, the Saints' head coach kicked off Super Bowl week by donning a bellhop uniform and helping with luggage when the team bus showed up at its downtown Miami hotel on Monday.
Drew Brees and the Saints' six other Pro Bowl players joined him, hoping to ease whatever tension accompanied the Saints on the first Super Bowl trip in the club's 43-year history.
"You never lose track of the job you have and for about a half hour today those Pro Bowl players, I thought, earned some pretty good tips here with our players getting off the buses and handling the luggage," Payton said, his eyes twinkling while he otherwise continued to speak in his typical wooden tone. "We're always wanting to steal a pretty good idea. I think Bill Walsh, a long time ago, had a pretty good idea and we just kind of took it like one of his offensive plays and ran with it."
When Walsh coached the 1981 San Francisco 49ers to the first of five Super Bowls for that franchise, he did essentially the same thing. The Joe Montana-led Niners beat Cincinnati, 26-21.
(Courtesy of WWLTV)
